He came down the shop looking for her quite obviously, and took up a position on the other side against a mirror in which he was able to regard her steadfastly. But the figure was evidently too intent on peering within the ballroom to pay any attention to what might be occurring outside. Ownership seemed only a reasonable return for the cares and expenses of a daughter’s upbringing. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. . Oddly, he was seldom angry with her as Gianfrancesco would have been. Piano wire, stained with black rust from the horrible deeds she had committed. His bravado waxed and he asked her to what would be her first date in nearly twenty years. He’s riding down the drive. Well might she do so, Gerald thought in irritation. “Only—I have come face to face—with something terrible, and wholly unexpected trouble. ‘Ain’t my place, I know that. ‘Because I’m a female,’ declared Lucilla unanswerably.
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